CA Technologies lays off nearly 50 on Long Island

ISLANDIA – CA Technologies has informed close to 50 of its IT employees that their jobs will be eliminated.

Employees in the company’s Global Information Services department, house in Islandia, were notified of the cost-cutting measure earlier this week.

CA Technologies spokeswoman Michelle Healy said the layoffs were necessary to reduce costs and ensure the company maintained competitive.

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“We made this decision to better align the skills within our GIS organization to address our changing business requirements,” Healy said. “CA Technologies continually reviews the solutions and services it provides and its operations and cost structure to ensure that it is competitive in a very challenging industry.”

The plan going forward is to hire an equal number of employees over the next 12 months, although not all new hires will remain on Long Island. Healy said some of the new hires would be in other locations, including the company’s India Technology Center.

CA Technologies made another overseas announcement today as well, signing a new partnership with Sydney-based Westcon Group. Under the terms of the agreement, Westcon will distribute a broad range of CA Technologies enterprise solutions to its customers in Australia as part of its own service offerings as a value-added distributor.

Westcon currently partners with other large companies including Cisco, Avaya, Emerson Network Power, F5 Networks, McAfee and Riverbed.

The new partnership will allow Westcon to work closer with CA Technologies’ Australia and New Zealand division.